View from the Potting Shed

Don’t try this at home: the interior of a hard disk drive.
An interesting article on The Register a few days ago about Dell’s plans in the US to offer customers “the option of adding an automatic back-up system to their new PC when they buy one of three models from its Dimension range.”
The article goes […]

Photograph of the Forth Bridge passing over the Hawes Inn at South Queensferry. Photograph taken with my Nokia 5140i phone camera.
Lunch today was a leisurely affair in the company of my dear friend Dave Gibbs at the highly-recommended Hawes Inn in South Queensferry.
Remarkably, today was the most quiet I’ve ever experienced the Hawes Inn for […]

Screenshot of adding bookmark links in Acrobat 7 Professional. And yes, it really is as exciting a job as it sounds.
This evening I are been mostly … adding bookmarks to a PDF document in Acrobat 7 Professional. If not an exciting task it is certainly a user-friendly one.
As part of the development of the […]

Blind justice? (Artwork from Metallica’s 1988 “…And Justice For All” album.)
So, it would appear that the Police are not interested in the damage to our cottage in Cellardyke, saying that we should have a contract with them and we’d need to pursue any damages through the courts, so get in touch with your lawyer!
What?!
What if […]

Picture of Winter in Northumberland, England by photographer Ian Britton. (Photograph from FreeFoto.com.)
My sermon from this morning:
Winter Martyrium
I don’t like these short, dark winter days. By 4:00 pm the skies are darkening and the street lights across the country switch on like some consenting, creeping blanket of light. And I feel the desire to curl […]

Exhibit A: Gareth and Dave Gibbs examine a broken chair in the kitchen. This photo was taken as we were about to leave, around 23:15, when we had calmed down a little.
We’re just back from Cellardyke where we’ve spent the evening clearing up some of the damage that a group of six Polish visitors (3 […]

View over to the Isle of May from our back garden in Cellardyke, Fife
We’ve not long heard that it appears that the Polish group that stayed in our holiday home in Cellardyke may have trashed some of the house. Our wonderful neighbours went in today to discover one door has been punched in, and […]